Reading Roland Barthes:

The hardest one of the bunch!

Monday, October 3, 11

“Studium”and

“Punctum”

Monday, October 3, 11

“To recognize the studium is inevitably to encounter the

photographer’s intentions... which allows me to discover the

Operator” (27-28)

Monday, October 3, 11

“The second element will break (or punctuate) the studium... I shall

therefore call punctum; for punctum is also: sting, speck, little hole—and also a cast of the dice. A

photograph’s punctum is that accident which pricks me (also

bruises me, is poignant to me)” (26-27).

Monday, October 3, 11

Monday, October 3, 11

“Since every photograph is contingent (and therefore outside of meaning), Photography cannot

signify... except by assuming a mask... what makes a face into the

product of a society and its history” (34).

Monday, October 3, 11

Monday, October 3, 11